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Cracking the brain’s genetic code

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: In PNAS, Fjell et al. (1) reveal a remarkable connection between genetics and neuroscience—a new discovery that reveals how genes shape our path through life. Their article draws thought-provoking links between modern genetics and how our brains develop, and even how we age: They find unsuspected patterns in how our genetic code drives childhood development; these patterns may even explain why our brains decline in characteristic ways late in life.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1520702112

Author: Paul M. Thompson

Institution: University of Southern California

Language: English

Topic: Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Awards: Alzheimer's disease risk analyzed using population imaging genomics, ENIGMA Center for Worldwide Medicine, Imaging & Genomics